TIIK FKONTIKK, O’Neill. Nebraslui. Thursday, August 31, l!*.l
Prairieland Talk
"Jesse James' Hangout Cave"
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st Sr.. IJncoln G, Nehr.
Robbers’ Cave. Just another of our Capital
City's places to go to if you have the two bits to
meet the cost of getting into it. A cave in the south
west limits of the city that is said to take you hack
to the days of Jesse James,
who with other thieves and cut
throats of many years ago
made that cave their hangout
where they planned their un
lawful deeds. A one-time don of
robbers, now a show place to
day where many go from time
to time. An elderly lady, a
widow, living in a large white
house a few steps from the
cave entrance, has been placed
in charge of the cave visitors Kmnalne
and is there at her home to Saunders
take your 25 cents and show you to the cave.
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A heavy rain wet our Capital City as 1 write.
And it is the weekly wash day, so out there beyond
my window they hang clean and white from daugh
ter's wash room and rain soaked. It was the com
plaint of some that we needed rain for a bit of gar
den growth to bring about the cabbage heads and
other things we eat. The clothes on the line will
dry, the grass on lawn and garden things fresh and
green Wo needed rain they said. We have had it,
and now may we open our soul to receive the
spiritual rain that feeds the inner life.
Midway between Third and Fourth streets on
Douglas was a street crossing walk which served
us to get to and from Holtel Evans and the Gatz
meat market on the south side of the street and to
Brennan’s hardware and the Mann store on the
north side. But when Dr. J. P. Gilligan was in
stalled as mayor of O’Neill out came that cross
walk, the gifted medical mayor feeling that a cross
walk at both Third and Fourth streets was all we
needed. So, as this lone pilgrim stepped out to cross
where that walk had been one day there came a
voice from the mayor’s office over the drug store
ordering me to ’’get hack.” But 1 sneaked across
once more.
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What rntikes that ear of yours so attractive to
the flies and other flying bugs as you sit out in the
open?
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The blue of the summer skies will fade again,
flowers wither and their beauty fade, birds take
to wing and away to southern lands, the rich blanket
of green across the landscape turned to autumn
brown and silken leaf on tree and bush turned to a
golden glow. Summer and autumn days fold their
wings and "like the Arabs” silently float away. The
snows of winter, again the north winds sullen moan,
and all through the long winter night the frost
lays in cold but. poetic beauty a picture on window
pane that tells us another winter has come. Turn
on the heat!
Editorial
The Merchant, Magician
And the Mad Housewife
The subliminal transformance of items needed
by the housewife from old standard-sized containers
to new, compact, colorful, and smaller-but-larger
looking, packages has been exposed by a Senate
Judiciary subcommittee inquiry.
Working with the feverish ambition of a side
show magician, some genuises at packaging have
turned up some optical illusionary containers that
appear to be as large—or even larger—as the old
fashioned kind. Browsing housewives come upon
these gay treasures, pay more, and get less on their
daily or weekly soirees through the supermarket.
While most of the major-name brand companies
have not been named in the investigation, a few
are known as well as the name of the hero of a
Friday night TV western.
Like the well-known wine bottle w'ith the hollow
bottom (now so long known that it is accepted as
honest flair) some of the newr packages are said to
have trick tops, bottoms, sides, color schemes . . .
anything that a designer or a packager could use
to make the hurried housewife think she is getting
the same quantity when actually she is getting less.
A few air-blown grains of cereal gained from
the old fashioned box and candy saved from a
pound container that now holds fourteen ounces,
can become a major contribution to a manu
facturer’s profits.
As we continue to get. less and less for more
and more, we can assume that the next dreadful
step will be to decrease the value of boxtops.
A card comes to me with greetings from Nellie
Hunt, who with her son are visiting the scene of her
laic husband's, Den Hunt, boyhood home in
Minnesota. Nellie and Den both were of pioneer
families of the O’Neill community. Most of their
married life was lived in Lincoln where Nellie still
has her home. Her husband died in Lincoln two or
three years ago, his death the result of being hit
by a driver near his home.
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There were three who were known by the name
John O’Neill in this town of ours in the long ago.
Genera! John O’Neill, his son, John, and the other
John O'Niill who in the lS80’s was in the hotel that
still stands at Fourth and Everett streets. I count
full 40 citizens of the community who we knew as
John. How many if any now in the city of O’Neill
respond to the name of John. One of the last I re
call by that name was John Green who moved
from his homestead in Wheeler county to O’Neill
some 30 years ago.
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Fifty years ago down in Boone county farmers
saw and envied her ability to toss 70 to 100 bushels
of corn in the wagon during cornhysking time, a
woman cornpicker. Today, aged and in poor health,
she makes her home with her daughter in daugh
ter's 1 eautiful home in southeast Lincoln, mother
and daughter, both widows. And the old gal still
works out in the garden; rather hoe a growing gar
den row than to make up her bed. Some 30 years
ago she and her husband spent a year or two in
the Amelia community and some down there today
may remember the Clarks.
I was an 11-year-old. Coming down the steps
at school recess time the one just behind me tried to
trip me. Reaching the floor below I doubled my
boyish right fist and swung; it took the kid behind
me a jolt in the jaw, and that kid was a bully that
had been picking on me everyday. That jolt in the
jaw subdued him and from then on he courted my
friendship. A blow like that is what the Russians
need now from American and British fists and may
soon get it.
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Walking by it again in memory the building
:>n the spot where The Frontier was started and
came forth for many years. No, Doc Matthews. Jim
Riggs, Clyde King, Denny Cronin are there no more.
Step on to the next door—Noah and Susan Gwinn
are gone as is Con Keys. And another door or two
along the way, Pat McManus greets us no more,
and another step to where J. P Gallagher and Miss
Meir were in the picture, now no more. The lumber
yard is still there across the street, but where are
Clyde and Joe? O. up on the hill under the sod.
And just across the street to the west the hotel
building still stands where it stood in the days of
Kid Wade and Doc Middleton, but Roscoe and Jack
O'Neill are no more. But I see one just next door,
a native son, R. H. Parker still here after all these
years. Give us a handshake, Parker pal.
Biggest Job For Agriculture
At more or less regular intervals we hear talk—
apparently a trial balloon nature—to the effect that
wage and price controls may be in the offing. And
existing and proposed agricultural programs im
pose or would impose on American farmers stricter
and more unpredictable controls than any they have
ever experienced.
So something said in a recent speech by H. R.
Davison, president of the American Meat Institute,
is of real importance now. In his words: “The live
stock and meat industry has. during the last 20
years, done the biggest job for American agricul
lure. All the talk about programs, all the talk about
government, all the talk about quotas, all the talk
about production controls, etc., are meaningless in
contrast to the fact that the biggest increase far
mers have had during this period has been the mar
ket for meat food products. It has accounted for
an increased feed grain outlet of 75 per cent in 20
years. Of harvested forage 60 per cent. Of pasture
and range forage—30 per cent. The production of
beef, for example, has almost doubled in this
period.”
And during those years, never forget, meat has
moved in the free market—the market which is
ruled, not by fallible human judgement, but by the
natural laws of supply and demand. The consumers
have benefitted right along with the farmers.
Frontiers
Ago
50 YEARS AGO
Miss Rose Fallon, who has
been studying voice culture in
Chicago the past year, returned
home last Monday evening for a
few' weeks visit . . . T. V. Golden
has commenced the erection of
a building just south of the
Royal theatre for office space on
the lower floor and sleeping
quarters above . . . The old set
tlers picnic held near Meek last
Thursday was one of the most
successful events of the kind
ever held in the county; 2,500
persons were present . . . The
Misses Leonore Daly, Bea Mc
Caffrey, Dora Testman and Bea
McGinnis went to Long Pine Sat
urday where they expect to
spend a few7 days camping at
Amusement park . . . Howard M.
Bryan and Miss Flossie S. New
ton, both of Page were issued a
marriage license last Tuesday.
25 YEARS A(K)
For the second time in recent
months, the Emmet State bank
was robbed Monday night but the
loss was only $60 ... A prairie
fire in the Opportunity country
last Saturday afternoon destroyed
90 stacks of hay and burned over
a strip of country one mile wide
and two and a half miles long
. . . Superintendent McClurg is
back to his office after some 10
days spent at Dallas. Tex . . .
Chester Calkins is biking a week
off from police duties and Bill
Lew'is is replacing him ... A
truck of Holt county bales pulled
out of O'Neill Tuesday for Ekla
ka, Mont . . . Funeral services
were held Tuesday morning at
St. Patrick’s catholic church for
Margaret Harte, 10, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Harte.
10 YEARS A(K)
The 59th Holt County Fair is
ready to open Thursday at
Chambers . . . Mrs. Henry Mi
ehaelson. Page, died at her home
August 20 following a stroke that
afternoon . . . Nine Holt county
men have been ordered to re
port for military service . .
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Lybolt of
Chambers celebrate golden wed
ding anniversary- ... St. An
thony’s hospital cement floors
were finished this week; land
scaping will start soon . . . Capt.
Herbert O. Brennan, O’Neill jet
fighter pilot in Far East theatre,
has rounded the 100-mission
mark . . . Rodney Perigoy,
Stuart, dies August 17, when
hurled from truck in which he
was riding.
5 YEARS A<H)
Roy Thurlow, 61, Atkinson,
died' August 22 following fal|
from tree while picking apples
. . . Brock Reynoldson joins O’
Neill Livestock Market firm as
yardman . . . New officers take
over Atkinson Cooperative
creamery . . . Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Golden left Monday for Ches
hire, Conn., where Mr. Golden
will resume teaching in a private
preparatory school . . . Patricia
Oppel, San Francisco, and J. Mc
Kenny, navy son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Harding, are wed July
7 .. . The Mrs. Celia Christian
son 480-acre improved farm
located 14 miles southwest of
Ewing sold at auction August 15
for $57.60 per acre to Frank
Hawk . . . Mr. and Mrs. Gus
Robinson, Amelia, entertained
the men who helped to build
their telephone line at a dinner
Sunday evening . . . Coach Mar
vin Miller announces the start
of football practice August 27.
The Long Ago
At Chambers
50 YEARS AGO
We understand that F. M.
Boyce has disposed of his stock
to B. J. Newlon and they are
now at work invoicing the stock
... A Seed company is offer
ing a $100 cup for the best ten
ears of corn displayed this year
at the Interstate Livestock Fair
in Sioux City . . . Last. Saturday
night this section was visited by
one of the worst rain and wind
storms that we have had in
several years . . . The young
people of Chambers gave a party
Monday evening in honor of Miss
Garwood and Miss Lumsden . . .
Dr. E. T. Wilson left O'Neill
Wednesday for Michigan where
he will remain until September
10 . . . N. S. Butler of Inman
was in town Tuesday on business.
25 YEARS A<W>
J. W. Walter, president;
George Kelly, vice president; J.
C. Baker, secretary, and Clair
Grimes, treasurer, are the new
officers of the Chambers Com
mercial club . . . Seventeen acres
of stubble, burned on the east side
of the Ernie Earl farm home
and no one can fathom the cause
of the fire . . . George B. Clark
left Monday to attend cases in
county court at Albion, Schuy
ler, Fremont and David City . . .
Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Hammer
and George Voorhies spent Sat
urday at the News office in
Orchard stapling the Fair books
... A family reunion was held
at the Leon Hertel home Sunday
when Pete Nielson and all his
children and their families were
present . . . Mr. and Mrs. S. E.
Honeywell will celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary with
a picnic at their farm Septem
ber 4.
A Poem
From Mrs. Eby ...
Beauty
A Sunday school teacher, a min
ister’s wife
Taught a group of girls from the
slum areas, life.
Ill-fed and ill-clothed they had a
dreary existance.
The teacher prayed to help with
out resistance.
I want you should look for some
beauty at home.
Not in things outside as this week
you roam.
Next week a sad faced little girl
Said no beauty I found till the
sun shone on my baby sister’s
curl.
Thus the teacher taught them
early in life
To look for beauty above squalor
and strife.
True, our circumstfmces we can’t
always change
But if we look above we can
somehow arrange.
To look for beauty like the brave
little girl
Who saw the sun shine through
her sister's curl.
iviaiij jt.cn o iciiti men itrcLdicri
(no more)
Her husband paused at a beauti
ful door.
A gracious lady met him with this ,
happy greeting
I once was a member of your
wife’s little meeting.
She taught us to look for beauty
and love
And from there we turned to
Jesus above
He taught us to look for the good
in folk
Though the slum condition could
not be broke
Then He taught me to think of
lovely things
Then sordid thoughts flew away
and took wings.
For you see, kind sir, I’m that
sad little girl
Who first saw beauty in her sis
ter’s curl.
Della Stuart Eby
Riverside News
By Mrs. Lionel Gunter
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Mrs. Wilmer Mosel, Mrs. Mel-1
vin Rexin, Mrs. Earl Pierson,
Mrs. Frank Schmidt, Mrs. Keith I
Biddlecome, Mrs. Raymond
Schmidt and Jeanette, Mrs. Har
ry Van Horn, Mona Mosel and
Mrs. Lionel Gunter attended a
miscellaneous shower for Miss
Sharon Schmidt Friday evening
at the St. Dominic hall.
Eddy Shrader consulted a doc- ,
tor Monday concerning a back
ailment.
The Wayne Fry family were
dinner guests Sunday at the Z. H.
Fry home.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rose, Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Napier and Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Hord were Sap
per guests Wednesday at the Al
fred Napier home.
Mrs. George Keller and Nan
cy and Mrs. Alfred Napier, Glen
da, Leroy and Dennis were Nor
folk visitors Friday.
Deanna Emsick was an over
night guest at the Wayne Fry
home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Pollock j
and Phil, Omaha, came to the |
Dave Pollock home Saturday to I
spend the weekend. The Art Buss- !
hardt and Kenneth Polock fami- j
lies, Neligh, visited Sunday in the i
Pollock home. Mr. and Mrs. Er-1
nst Norwood called at the Dave j
Pollock home Thursday evening, j
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fink and j
family, Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Fry and Terry, Diane and Gor
don Shrader, Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Shrader and family and the Lynn
Fry family went to Grove Lake i
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rose and
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Rose and
sons were dinner guests Wednes
day at the Lynn Fry home.
^■ j
Mrs. Robert Hobbs assisted
Mrs. Dewitt Hoke in entertain
lag the Star kensington Friday
afternoon with 15 members and
one guest. Mrs. Lester Spragg,
present.
Reed Emsick returned to his
home in Omaha last Sunday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fry and
Terry were dinner and supper
guests Thursday at the Lynn Fry
home. Other supper guests were
Mrs. Kitty Fry, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Fink and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Shrader and family
and Diane Shrader.
Mrs. Bert Fink accompanied
Sandra Shrader to Fremont Mon
day and spent the night at the
Russel Fink home. Sandra stay
ed with her girl friend, Joan Har
per. Joan came home with Sandra
and Mrs. Fink Tuesday for a few
days visit at the Willie Shrader
home, returning to her home in
Fremont by has Friday morning.
Mrs. Kittie Fry and Mr. and
Mrs. Eldred Fry visited Friday
evening at the Z. H. Fry home.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pierson
joined Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Woeppel. Mrs. Marilyn Burk
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Pribnow and children at
the Marcus Pierson home Sun
day for dinner in honor of Mar
vin’s and Earl’s birthdays and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pierson’s
and Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Pier
son’s wedding anniversaries.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. H. Fry, Mr.
and Mrs. Dale Napier, Mr. and
Mrs. Eldred Fry and Richard and
the Lynn Fry and Willie Shrader
families were dinner guests Sun
day at the Kitty Fry home.
Deanna Emsick was an over
night guest at the Dale Napier
home Friday.
Z. H. Fry left Thursday morn
ing to fish at Pierre, S. D.
Lna Bennett, Mrs. Ruth Wap
les and Mrs. Wayne Shrader and
family visited Tuesday at the
Keith Biddlecome home.
Al Gibson visited Friday eve
ning at the Wayne Fry home.
The Leo Miller family left
Tuesday to visit at the Dan Rob
bins home at Racine, Minn., for
a few days, planning to be home
by Saturday or Sunday.
Mrs. Gerald Wetlauffer helped
with the painting at her mother’s,
Mrs. Martha Shrader, Tuesday.
Judy Gunter went home with her
for a visit, returning to Owing
by bus Friday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. William Lofquist
and family left last Saturday eve
ning for Scottsbluff and spent
Sunday with her mother, Mrs
Mary Rotherham. Monday they
went to the Hidden Paradise park
near Long Pine for a couple of
days, returning home Wednesday.
Lucille Rotherham is visiting
at the William Lofquist home for
a few' days before returning to
her home at Gallup, N. M.
Wilmer Mosel and Robert I>an
away and two sons went fishing
Tuesday in South Dakota, return
ing home Wednesday.
Mrs. Gerald Hadduck and
children, Denver, Colo., came Fri
day evening to visit her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller, and
other relatives for a few days.
Mrs. Dale Napier and Anna
Marie Jensen met Anna Marie's
mother in Tilden Thursday morn
ing and accompanied her to Lin
coln. Mrs. Duane Jensen brouglu
Mrs. Dale Napier back to Tilden
that night and she returned
home from there.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shrader
and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shrader
attended Mrs. Mary Luzio’s fan
eral services at Homer Wednes
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Napier
and family took Deanna, Joan
and Peggy Emsick to their home
in Omaha Sunday morning and
were guests at the Frank Emsicl.
home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Montgorn
ery and Mr. and Mrs. Z. H. Fry
were dinner guests Wednesday
at the Millie Mahood home in
Orchard.
Mrs. Esther Mae Barnhart and
children, Neligh, were dinner
guests Sunday at the Grant Mott
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hobbs and
Bobby, Omaha, came last Satur- .
day evening to the Dewitt Hoki |
home. Robert returned home Sun
day afternoon and Mrs. Hobbs
and Bobby stayed for a week's j
visit, returning home Sunday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Web Napier and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rose were |
supper guests last Saturday at
the John Napier home.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Fry arid i
Richard, McPherson, Kan., spent
Friday night at the Lynn Fry
home. Saturday both families
joined Mrs. Kitty Fry and Mr.
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NOTICE
!
All drivers licenses will expire September 1, If01 and must be
renewed during the months of September and October. None can
be issued before September 1. Ilue to late legislation there might
be a few days delay in receiving our forms from the printers.
Please check your old license* for errors before sending them
in for renewal.
We must have your old license and a fee of $2.00 for persons
20 years old and over and $1.50 for persons under 20. Also include
a self addressed stamped envelope for returning your new li
cense.
The simplest way to get your renewal is by mail.
J. ED HANCOCK
County Treasurer
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find Mrs. Willard Fry and Ter
ry for dinner at the Willie Shra
der home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Hike vis
ited last Sunday at the Lee Fink
home near Page.
Mrs. Z. H. Fry, Deanna, Joan
and Peggy Emsick, Mrs Dale
Napier and Mrs. Richard Naipier,
Nancy and Reta attended the An
telope County Fair in Neligh last
weekend and watched the judg
ing of the clothing find cooking.
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Switzer and
the Wendell 9witzer family at
tended the Fair Friday evening.
Mrs. Alfred Napier and Glenda
and Mrs. G. I>. Ryan and Seila
took the sewing and cooking ex
hibits to the Fair Thursday after
noon.
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